The Christmas period always leaves people feeling a little short on cash, and this year, with the global recession, rising cost of living and continuing times of economic downturn, more of us than ever will be looking to start the New Year with a more frugal approach.

The district health board in Aukland, New Zealand, have unveiled controversial new plans which will see the introduction of a policy of not hiring smokers. The District Health Board in the city is consider the hiring regime as an extension of its ‘smoke free’ policy, which bans patients, visitors and staff from smoking on any of its sites.

The board’s director of nursing claims that the plans are justified by the staff’s "responsibilities to be positive role models in dealing with patients and the public".

A recent study by researchers at the University of Northumbria has found that long term smoking can have an effect on memory, but giving up smoking can have a positive impact on reversing the effect. Researchers from the University’s Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group conducted the study earlier this year, the first study of its kind to set out to determine whether giving up smoking can have a positive impact on memory retention and recollection.

The Doctors show recently reviewed electronic cigarettes as a healthier alternative to smoking tobacco...and approved! Thousands of Americans watched as electronic cigarettes were put through paces and tested by the doctors and members of the public. As Electronic cigarettes deliver nicotine but without any tar, tobacco or chemicals they were given the thumbs up from the doctors as a way to swap smoking tobacco cigarettes with a cleaner, cheaper version you can smoke anywhere!

E-Lites electronic cigarettes launched the latest electronic smoking technology at the Orlando Gift Show and the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show

There has been much media coverage about the regulation of cigarettes; however an exciting new product has come to the market which will revolutionize the smoking habit of millions of people…. E-Lites Electronic Cigarettes.

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